[Mrs. Don-o]

"Either way, part of America died with Terri."

I absolutely agree. And I think Lana Jacobs knew she would be arresed. She just wanted to make it so visually and obviously clear: if you try to give a drink of water to an innocent Florida woman dying of thirst, you will be stopped by the police.

[8mmMauser]

I don't hear the thud. Maybe it is because I don't see how I fit into a box labeled social con or such. I tend to think the thought of saving a life of an innocent was an ordinary emotion or ordinary decent people, and not limited to a radical and clearly defined faction. Anyway, this is how it reads in Pajamas Media...

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That thud you just heard is the sound of the conservative coalition that elected Republican majorities to Congress cracking up and hitting the floor.

The higher the poll numbers for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rise, the lower the spirits of some conservatives who see the advent of the socially conservative Baptist minister as a disaster in the making for the party.

~Snip~

This then is the battleground and conservatives are starting to choose up sides. Christians are getting mad at libertarian conservatives who can’t stomach Huckabee’s sly appeals to religiosity – an anathema anyway to those who think that the receive too much prominence in Republican politics as it is. These same Christians see what many refer to as the Goldwater “Leave me the hell alone” wing of the party as being terribly condescending toward evangelicals, manipulating their vote every two years in order to rack up majority after majority in Congress while electing twice.

The schism first became noticeable during the imbroglio over Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman whose husband went to court in order to get permission to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents objected, pleading to keep their daughter alive.

Social conservatives threw themselves into the defense of Schiavo’s right to life with a passion. They were opposed with equal passion by the libertarians who believed the case to be a private, family matter. Before the dust settled, the two sides – libertarians and social cons – were staring across a great divide that only now is revealing itself to be unbridgeable. And the rise of Huckabee has, if anything, only widened the gap.

The Huckaboom Means a Conservabust

8mm

[8mmMauser]

I don't hear the thud. Maybe it is because I don't see how I fit into a box labeled social con or such. I tend to think the thought of saving a life of an innocent was an ordinary emotion or ordinary decent people, and not limited to a radical and clearly defined faction. Anyway, this is how it reads in Pajamas Media...

...............................

That thud you just heard is the sound of the conservative coalition that elected Republican majorities to Congress cracking up and hitting the floor.

The higher the poll numbers for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rise, the lower the spirits of some conservatives who see the advent of the socially conservative Baptist minister as a disaster in the making for the party.

~Snip~

This then is the battleground and conservatives are starting to choose up sides. Christians are getting mad at libertarian conservatives who can’t stomach Huckabee’s sly appeals to religiosity – an anathema anyway to those who think that the receive too much prominence in Republican politics as it is. These same Christians see what many refer to as the Goldwater “Leave me the hell alone” wing of the party as being terribly condescending toward evangelicals, manipulating their vote every two years in order to rack up majority after majority in Congress while electing twice.

The schism first became noticeable during the imbroglio over Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman whose husband went to court in order to get permission to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents objected, pleading to keep their daughter alive.

Social conservatives threw themselves into the defense of Schiavo’s right to life with a passion. They were opposed with equal passion by the libertarians who believed the case to be a private, family matter. Before the dust settled, the two sides – libertarians and social cons – were staring across a great divide that only now is revealing itself to be unbridgeable. And the rise of Huckabee has, if anything, only widened the gap.

The Huckaboom Means a Conservabust

8mm